Read Float field as float or decimal (not double) and Add support for Double field

ekonbenefits / dotnetdbf

This is a basic file parser written in C# for reading and writing xBase DBF files, particularly Clipper.

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Read Float field as float or decimal (not double) and Add support for Double field #15

Open jbtule opened 7 years ago

jbtule commented 7 years ago

Floats are stored as strings so they are exact numbers, like decimal type, but maybe if someone types a DBF fields as float they are expecting a float so maybe just return a float? Currently returns a double, would have to to make a breaking-ish change, but it's not right either a float or a decimal make sense.

Double fields are actually stored as doubles, and could return doubles but aren't currently supported.

jbtule commented 7 years ago

It's more complicated that it seamed dbf Double is only support in specific versions of DBFs and "B" potentially conflics with other types of DBFs for blob.